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Edge 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈This is completely beyond the pale:'The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration."“This is not fraud. This is targeted harassment,” <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations</a><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FBI</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Criminalize</a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/HabitatForHumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HabitatForHumanity</a>

Nonilexthe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CiceroInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CiceroInstitute</a>, which is lobbying states to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminalize</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homelessness</a>, & the University of Austin, which he has described as an antidote to universities that have been overtaken by “radical, far-left ideologues.”Others, like the venture capitalists <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarcAndreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarcAndreessen</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BenHorowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenHorowitz</a>, were Democrats troubled by the changing climate for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> investors.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MaleSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaleSupremacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RulingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RulingClass</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Bourgeoisie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bourgeoisie</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aristocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Totalitarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Totalitarianism</a>

NonilexIt would <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminalize</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pornography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pornography</a>. There would be <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassDeportations</a> & curtailments of LEGAL <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> programs, including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DACA</a>. It would DISMANTLE the Dept of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a>.Throughout the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> manifesto, authors also recommend ways to increase funding for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#religious</a> orgs by giving them more access to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> programs–largely through increased use of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#school</a> vouchers that could go to religious schools<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewApostolicReformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewApostolicReformation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SevenMountainMandate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SevenMountainMandate</a>

beSpacificAnother in the continuing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maga</a> effort to de legitimize <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanities</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#librarians</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#threats</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#America</a>. Inside the two-year fight to bring charges against school librarians in Granbury, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Texas</a>. 824-page investigative file offers visceral picture of an officer’s attempt to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/prosecute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prosecute</a> librarians amid a nationwide movement to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminalize</a> books. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Nazism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazism</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/bookbans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookbans</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-librarians-banned-books-investigation-texas-rcna161444" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-librarians-banned-books-investigation-texas-rcna161444</a> charges never filed

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plan</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminalize</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#porn</a> has a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/sinister" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sinister</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/subplot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subplot</a>. The <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/farright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#farright</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gameplan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gameplan</a> for a second <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/term" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#term</a> defines <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pornography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pornography</a> to include "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>." <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transgender</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBTQIA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Florida</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Extremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Extremism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Religion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hategroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hategroups</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bigotry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Violence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Violence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Discrimination</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transphobia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ThePartyOfHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePartyOfHate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EmptyThePews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EmptyThePews</a> <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-porn-ban-lgbtq-transgender-rcna161562" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-porn-ban-lgbtq-transgender-rcna161562</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOil</a>’s Plan To <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Criminalize</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pipeline</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protests</a>By ExposedByCMD Editors | June 18th, 2024 at 12:21 PM (CDT)"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnneWhiteHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnneWhiteHat</a> found herself facing up to 10 years in prison after she was arrested for two counts of felony trespassing in September 2018 under one such law, which had just taken effect in Louisiana following pressure from oil and gas lobbyists. She was one of four Native women who founded a resistance camp called L’eau Est La Vie, which was organizing nonviolent direct actions in protest of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayouBridgePipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BayouBridgePipeline</a> — a now-operating 163-mile pipeline owned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnergyTransfer</a> that transports crude oil throughout the state. The protests ranged from a rendition of 'Crawfish the Musical' on the construction site to protesters locking themselves to pipeline equipment to tree sits in the centuries-old cypresses the company planned to tear down."The Bayou Bridge pipeline is the tail end of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DakotaAccess</a> route — White Hat had already joined her relatives to participate in the resistance camp at Standing Rock in North Dakota. 'I felt like it was a righteous cause, not to let them comfortably continue to threaten the waters of Indigenous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FirstNations</a>,' she said. 'I was inspired from the work up North and just couldn’t let them continue down here unanswered and unchecked.'White Hat had just finished leading a prayer ceremony when she was arrested at a boat ramp miles from the pipeline construction site. She was hauled into a sheriff deputy’s car with two other women and driven through tall sugar cane fields on the way to jail. 'It was terrifying,' said White Hat. 'We’re way out in the middle of nowhere. I was like, ‘Is this the point where I actually disappear?’Investigative journalist Karen Savage was arrested that day, too — her second arrest under felony trespass charges as she reported on the Bayou Bridge protests. She was one of the only reporters to travel to the Atchafalaya Basin swamp, where the pipeline was being constructed.By the time the water protectors got to the swamp, Savage said, they 'had done everything — they went to public meetings, they had petitions, they wrote letters, they tried to meet with the governor — they did everything they tell you in school, to participate and use your civil obligation in your community.' Despite their best efforts in one of the most oil- and gas-friendly states in the country, said Savage, 'nobody was listening.'"<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/big-oils-plan-to-criminalize-pipeline-protests/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2024/06/18/big-oils-plan-to-criminalize-pipeline-protests/</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRightsViolations</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousActivism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousLandDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DirectAction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateFascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterProtectors</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForestDefenders</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateActivists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateJustice</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EcoActivists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a>

beSpacificAs a career long law librarian, this leaves me sad, angry, and really, feeling ill. I cannot even imagine 45 years ago anyone threatening the profession and its members this way - <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> HB 777 Would <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Criminalize</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Librarians</a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> Who Join the American Library Association <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ALA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ALA</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#librarians</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/KnowledgeSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KnowledgeSharing</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/criminallaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminallaw</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/legislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legislation</a>

DoomsdaysCW‘They <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminalize</a> us’: how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/felony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#felony</a> charges are weaponized against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PipelineProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PipelineProtesters</a> Twenty states have passed laws that criminalize protesting, including on infrastructure including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pipelines</a>. In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Minnesota</a>, at least 66 felony theft charges against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Line3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Line3</a> protesters remain openAlexandria Herr for Floodlight Thu 10 Feb 2022 "Last summer [2021] Sabine von Mering, a professor of German at Brandeis University, drove more than 1,500 miles from Boston to Minneapolis to protest against the replacement of the Line 3 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilPipeline</a> that stretches from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TarSands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TarSands</a> down to Minnesota."Along with another protester, she locked herself to a semi-truck in the middle of a roadway, according to a filed court brief, as a means of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peaceful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#peaceful</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a>. But when she was arrested, she was charged with a serious crime: felony theft, which carries up to five years in prison."'It’s very scary that they criminalize us like that, and to face jail time,' said Von Mering, 54, of her June arrest. 'But what can I do? I feel responsible to my kids and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FutureGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FutureGenerations</a>.'"The felony charges come as more than a dozen states have passed laws to criminalize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuel</a> protests, and as the federal government has ramped up its own tactics for surveilling and penalizing protesters."Von Mering is one of nearly 900 protesters who were arrested in Minnesota for protesting against the pipeline’s construction, with the vast majority of arrests taking place during the summer of 2021, and one of dozens facing felony charges. Construction on the Line 3 pipeline was finalized in October 2021 and carries 760,000 barrels of oil per day across northern Minnesota. But its construction for years has stoked fierce protests and legal challenges, led by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> activists in northern Minnesota who worried about potential impacts of oil spills and the pipeline’s threat to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/treaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#treaty</a> rights to gather wild rice. While most of the arrests have led to misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor charges for crimes including 'disturbing the peace' and 'trespassing', felony charges like Von Mering’s mean protesters are facing years of jail time."Legal advocates say that in Minnesota the elevated charges are a novel tactic to challenge protest actions against pipeline construction. They see them as furthering evidence of close ties between Minnesota’s government and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuelIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FossilFuelIndustry</a>. It follows reporting by the Guardian that the Canadian pipeline company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Enbridge</a>, which is building Line 3, reimbursed Minnesota’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#police</a> department $2.4m for time spent arresting protesters and on equipment including ballistic helmets. Experts say the reimbursement strategy for arrests is a new technique in both Minnesota and across the US, and there’s concern it can be replicated."'I do a lot of representation for people in political protests and I’ve never seen anything like that,' said Jordan Kushner, a defense attorney representing clients charged in relation to Line 3 protests."Two of Kushner’s clients were charged with felony 'aiding attempted suicide' charges for crawling inside a pipe. The charge is for someone who 'intentionally advises, encourages, or assists another who attempts but fails to take the other’s own life', according to Minnesota law and carries up to a seven-year sentence. Authorities alleged that the protesters were endangering their lives by remaining inside the pipeline."Read more: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/felony-charges-pipeline-protesters-line-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/felony-charges-pipeline-protesters-line-3</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopEnbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopEnbridge</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLine3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoLine3</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protestors</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateActivists</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousNews</a>

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